INDIGST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heteronormativity, Stereotype, Bartolomé De Las Casas

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Indigenous Studies
• Course: INDIGST 1A03
• Professor: Vanessa Watts

Document Summary

Taking a small (potential) reality for a small sample of people and applying it as a whole. Racial characteristics become essentialized and attached to a certain race or group, then become normalized at an unconscious level. Category of difference; set a group as other" than the norm. Justification for: genocide, systemic racism, social and economic injustice. Provides rationale for imprisonment of political leaders. An attitude of mind in which one holds members of a group to be inferior while one"s own race", ethnicity, culture, gender, or class is supposedly superior. An overt act based on a prejudice. Can be committed by either individuals or institutions (i. e. government, church, business, criminal justice system, etc) Acquisition of land and the removal of the indian bodies. Measures taken by the oppressor group to stamp out indigenous culture and its social institutions. Voyagers accounts: early spanish colonizers - columbus 1493, vespucci (1505) Tropes: lawless, godless, violent peoples, savages, cannibals.